Re: The Intellectual Origin of Positivism

From: Lester Zick (lesterDELzick_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 07/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 15:57:07 GMT

On 13 Jul 2004 15:22:19 -0700, erayo@bilkent.edu.tr (Eray Ozkural
exa) in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

>lesterDELzick@worldnet.att.net (Lester Zick) wrote in message news:<40f3fc31.60344270@netnews.att.net>...
>> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:08:30 +0000 (UTC), Neil W Rickert
>> <rickert+nn@cs.niu.edu> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:
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>> >lesterDELzick@worldnet.att.net (Lester Zick) writes:
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>> >>Science has no interest in the speculative, whether metaphysical or
>> >>philosophical in nature.
>> >
>> >This is clearly mistaken. There has long been a significant
>> >component of speculative theorizing within science.
>>
>> Scientists take a great deal of interest in speculative theorizing.
>> Science - the bottom line - does not.
>
>There is a speculative component even in hard sciences like physics,
>such as in quantum physics. In fact, I think this is the very stuff of
>physics. There is an endless feedback between observations and
>speculative theorizing. We have to generate a hypothesis before we set
>out to verify it. The creative part is in the speculative, generative
>fashion in which physicists work.

There is a speculative component even in hard scientists, Eray, not
the hard sciences. Sure, this is the contemporary view of a modern
scientist cum pop rock star. Too much pop, not enough rock.

Regards - Lester

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